How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Ulysses by James Joyce Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce.
According to Declan Kiberd, "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking." However, even proponents of Ulysses such as Anthony Burgess have described the book as "inimitable, and also possibly mad".
Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W B Yeats, T S Eliot and Ernest Hemingway.
One of the most important works of modernist literature, James Joyce's "Ulysses" was originally published in serial format from 1918 to 1920 and then published in a single edition in 1922, which this edition is drawn from.
Wer den großen Jahrhundertroman von James Joyce noch nicht gelesen hat, wer ihn liebt und ihn immer wieder von neuem lesen oder wer ihn an andere verschenken möchte, dem sei Ulysses jetzt in der neuen Kultausgabe zum 125.
"Ulysses, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on modern fiction.
Ulysses is a snapshot of one day’s life. Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. It is funny, sorrowful, and even suspenseful.
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Considered the greatest 20th century novel written in English, in this edition Walter Gabler uncovers previously unseen text.
Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between the poem and the novel, with structural correspondences between the characters and experiences of ...
" However, even proponents of Ulysses such as Anthony Burgess have described the book as "inimitable, and also possibly mad".
Arguably the greatest novel of the twentieth century, James Joyce's Ulysses remains as much of a shocking and redemptive testament to the human condition as it was when it was first conceived in 1914.
An excerpt of the review by Current Opinion, Vol. 73, 1922: THE QUEEREST NOVEL EVER WRITTEN JOYCE'S "ULYSSES" SETS A NEW STANDARD IN FICTION SOMETHING new is troubling the critics of two continents.
James Joyce's novel Ulysses is said to be one of the most important works in Modernist literature.
A masterful introduction to James Joyce's Ulysses.There is no book like Ulysses, and no book about it quite like this one. Now completely revised to correspond to the definitive new...
Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between its characters and events and those of the poem.
In doing so, the novel nearly breaks the back of realism (literature with a goal of portraying people and events as they exist in the real world).
The book consists of 18 chapters, each covering roughly one hour of the day, beginning around 8 a.m. and ending sometime after 2 a.m. the following morning.
A day in the life of Leopold Bloom, whose odyssey through the streets of turn-of-the-century Dublin leads him through trials that parallel those of Ulysses on his epic journey home.
Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between the poem and the novel, with structural correspondences between the characters and experiences of ...
This new edition of Ulysses features their interpretations, complimenting and complicating the great epics from which they are borne, reminding readers that time changes, but our concerns--mortality, identity, sex, justice, love--remain the ...